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Countries by land border length Antarctica and countries in purple are those without any land border. ... Ukraine: 891 km (554 mi) ... Iran: 499 km (310 mi) Iraq: ...
Below are separate lists of countries and dependencies with their land boundaries, and lists of which countries and dependencies border oceans and major seas.The first short section describes the borders or edges of continents and oceans/major seas.
Iran has international borders with 13 sovereign countries, both on land and sea. It has a total of 5,894 kilometres (3,662 mi) land borders with Iraq , Turkey , Azerbaijan , Armenia , Turkmenistan , Afghanistan , and Pakistan . [ 1 ]
The border starts in the north at the Turkish tripoint (at 37° 08' 44" N and 44° 47' 05" E). It then proceeds southwards via a series of irregular lines through the Zagros Mountains, trending broadly to the south-east, save for short stretches where it utilises rivers (such as the Zab as Saghir and Diyala River) and a protrusion of Iraqi territory east of Sulaymaniyah in Penjwen District.
In 2011, another wave of protests by Arab tribes occurred mostly in the urban area of Ahvaz. Before the Iran–Iraq War of the 1980s, the Arabs of Khuzestan mostly resided in the rural regions along the Karkhe and Karun rivers in the southwest of the province and the number living in cities was very limited because the Arab tribes were still ...
With an area of 1,648,195 square kilometres (636,372 sq mi), Iran ranks seventeenth in size among the countries of the world. Iran shares its northern borders with several post-Soviet states: Armenia, Azerbaijan, [a] and Turkmenistan. These borders extend for more than 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi), including nearly 650 kilometres (400 mi) of ...
Iran– Azerbaijan: 100,000 Khorramshahr and Abadan and Basra Iran– Iraq: 2,000,000 Dhahran and Jubail and Manama Saudi Arabia– Bahrain: 2,000,000 Tashkent and Saryagash Uzbekistan– Kazakhstan: 3,000,000 [3] Fergana and Kyzyl-Kiya Uzbekistan– Kyrgyzstan: 300,000 Qorasuv and Kara-Suu: 40,000 Heihe and Blagoveshchensk China– Russia: 400,000
Iran, [a] [b] officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) [c] and also known as Persia, [d] is a country in West Asia.It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.